For Hudson Cinema owners Rob and Heather Hall, the past several months have been an emotional roller coaster as to whether they could keep their film theater alive in the new digital age.

On Friday, it was official: Thanks to the generosity of the community, the movie theater’s primary screen will soon be converted to digital format.

The Halls own the two-screen movie theater along Main Street in Hudson, a business that has been threatened with becoming obsolete since movie producers announced last year they would stop sending out film versions of movies.

The Hudson Cinema uses a film projector, and the cost to convert a single screen to digital is approximately $45,000.

An anonymous member of the community has loaned the Halls $20,000 with low-interest payback terms, while nearly all of those who made pledges through a fundraiser website made good on their donations, Heather Hall said.

Additionally, donations continued to come in until the full amount needed was reached this week. They were also able to reduce the final purchase cost to $40,000.

The family has owned the Hudson Cinema for eight years.

The Halls had said the conversion to digital was inevitable, but it came up more quickly than expected.

“And then ... when it really happened, it was panic time,” Hall said.Last fall, the business owners turned to an online fundraiser site — Kickstarter — to help raise the funds needed to make the switch.

With Kickstarter’s processing fees included, the Halls needed to raise $60,000. However, the all-or-nothing campaign ended Nov. 12 with $20,577 in pledges — a little less than the cost of the digital projector equipment itself.

Rob Hall said Friday they will order the necessary equipment and have a technician who specializes in installing such equipment fly to Michigan to set it all up.

All told, Rob said, “We will be running digital movies, probably in two weeks.”

The theater will remain open and show movies while the equipment is being set up, he said.

Rob said he is grateful to the community for its support in keeping the small-town cinema alive in Hudson.

“We couldn’t have done it without them,” he said. “When everybody comes out of the woodwork and backs (their support) with money, it’s definitely a vote of confidence in what we’re doing.”

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